Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-10

1t is not so now. In this country, cap
able Of holding, feeding, clothing and
sheltering twelve hundred million people,
and where we have only sixty million iu-
habitants, we have two million who can
not get honest work, and with their fami-
lies, an aggregation of twenty million
that are on the verge of starvation.
SOMETHING WRONG
most certainly. In some way there will
be new apportionment. Many Of the
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on
the designations of grandchildren and then
dissolve into the possession OF the masses
who now have an insufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the ex-
pensive and elaborate buildings now de-
voted to debasing amusements? They will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
gymnasiums and churches. The world
is already getting Disguised with many Of
these amusements, and no wonder. What
an importation of unclean theatrical stuff
we have within the last few years had
brought to our shores. And professors OF
religion patronizing such things! Having
sold out to the devil, why don't you de-
liver the goods and 60 over to him public
ly, body, mind and soul, and withdraw
your name from Christian churches and
say, "Know all the world by these pres
ents that am patron of uncleaness and
child of hell" Sworn to be the Lords
you are perjurers.
But at last the tide has turned, and the
despisers of purity overdid the matter.
A FoREIN ACTRESS
Of base morals arrived, intending to make
the tour of the States, but the remaining
decency of our cities rose up and cancelled
the contracts, and drove her back from our
American stage, woman tit for neither
continent. In the name of Almighty God
l take these denominations by the throat.
If you think these offenses are to 60 on for
ever, YOU do not know who the Lord is.
God will not wait for the Day of Judg-
ment. All these palaces of sin will become
palaces of righteousness. They will come
into possession of those strong for virtue
and strong for God. 'He shall divide the
spoil with the strong"
CHINA AND AFRICA,
the two richest portions of the earth by
reason of metals and rare woods, and in
exhaustible productiveness, are not yet di-
vided up among the good becavse they are
not ready to be divided. Wait until all
the doors that Livingston opened in AT
rica shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor
with his band of self-suppOrting mission
aries have done their work, and the Asian
tees and Senegambians shall know Christ
as we'll as you know him, and there shall
be on the banks of the Nile and the Niger
higher civilization than is now to be
found on the banks of the Hudson, then
Christ will divide up that continent among
his friends. Wait until China, which is
half as large rs all Europe, shall have de-
velOped her capacities for rice, and tea,
and sugar, among edibles; and her ame-
thyst, and sapphire, and topaz, and opal,
and jasper, and porphyry, among precious
stones; and her rosewood, and ebony, and
camphor, and varnish trees among precious
woods; and turned up from her depths a
half dozen Pennsylvania of coal and iron,
and twenty Nevadas of silver, and fifty
CALIFORNIA; of gold, and her five hundred
million of people shall he evangelical
then the Lord will divide it up among the
good.
If my text be not deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all commerce con-
trolled by Christian merchants, and all the
authority held by Christian officials, and
all the ships commanded by Christian cap
tains, and all the universities under the
instruction of Christian professors; Chris
tian kings, Christian presidents Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet, what a securing
out! what an upturning! what a demOli-
ton! what q resurrection must precede
this new apportionment
do not underrate the enemy. Julius
Cesar got his greatest victories by fully es-
timating the vastness of his foes and pre-
pared his men for their greatest triumph
by saving: Tomorrow King Juba will
be here with thirty thousand horses, one
hundred thousand skirmishers, and three
hundred elephant" | do not underrate
the vast forces of Sin and Death but do
YOU know who commands us? Jehova-
Jireh. And the reserve corps rs behind lis
are all the armies of heaven and earth,
with hurricane and thunderbolt. The
good work of the worlds redemption is
GOING ON EVERY MINUTE.
Never so many splendid men and glorious
women on the side Of right as to-day.
Never so many good people rs now. Di-
ogenes has been spoken of as wise man
because he went with lantern at MONDAY
saying he was looking for an honest man.
If he had turned his lantern towards him
himself he might have discovered a crank.
Honest men by the ten thousand! Through
the international series of Sunday school
lessons the next generation all through
Christendom are going to be wiser than
any generation since the world stood.
The kingdom is coming. God can do it.
No housewife with chamois cloth ever
polished silver teaspoon with more ease
than Christ will rub off from this world
the tarnish, and brighten it uphill itglows
like heaven, and then the glorious appor-
tionment, for my text is reinforced by a
score ofother texts, when it says of Christ:
''He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, "that is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that time /
shall have passed up into another existence
and ] shall get no advantage from that
new apportionment" All, you have only
driven me to the other more exciting and
transporting consideration, and that is
that Christ is going to divide up heaven in
the same way. There are old estates in
the celestial world that have been IN the
possession of its inhabitants for thousands
of years, and they shall remain as they
are. There are old family mansions in
heaven filled with whole generations of
kindred, and the shall never be driven out
Many of the viotors from each have
already got their palaces, and they are
pointed out to those newly arrived. Soon
after our getting there We will ask to be
shown the Apostolic residences. and ask
where does Paul live, and John, and
shown the patriarchial residences, and
shall say: Where does Abraham live, or
jacob" and shown the martyr residences
and say: Where does John huss live, and
Ridley?" We will want to see the boule-
wards where the chariots Of conquerrs roll.
j will want to see the gardens where tins
princes walk. We will want to see
MUSIC ROW,
where Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart,